Granddad's Death Came to Fast.

Granddad's Death Came to Fast.

  • Submitted By: rachelk123
  • Date Submitted: 06/16/2013 10:54 AM
  • Category: English
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How a death in the family has affected me..

Death comes on short notice. It doesn’t write or call to tell you that it’s coming; It doesn’t even knock. I learned the hard way when my granddad passed away, one week after my birthday. His loss brought me a great deal of pain, considering I thought he was always going to be around. All of a sudden all the excitement that I had being another year older was suddenly fading into a sorrowful moment that was shadowed by one of the most important men in my life. What I learned from that experience was to show your love more to the people you value most. At the time there were some barriers between us where I being so busy with my birthday party, which meant I was not able to to visit him often or talk to him much as I used to. I wasn’t expecting his death. He was such an amazing person someone you’d never think would die that young. Before that happened I was so excited with my birthday party plans, I was thinking of a brilliant party where all my friends and family were there. Celebrating with me, I was hoping that my granddad would be there celebrating with us. I wanted him to see how happy I as with the way my life was going. I wanted him to be in the family pictures, I wanted him to be proud of me that I was growing up to be a responsible young girl. It was going my way. The way I planned things. It should have been a moment of sheer happiness I never expected anything like that. One fated afternoon, i received a call at home from my mum. She was sobbing, speechless. At first when she spoke the words i broke into tears; my worst nightmare had finally found realisation my graddad had passed away. He had died of heart failure at the age sixty-four. He had dies just one week after my birthday. I was devastated, i felt like the world was just chasing down around me. The next events were scenes of sadness and scenes of great depression. I had temporarily lost the thought about the party and was overwhelmed with sadness....

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